"Euro-Skulptur" von Ottmar Hörl

This guide to the illuminated Euro-Skulptur in Frankfurt starts on New Year's Eve 2001, when artist Ottmar Hörl's giant lit-up euro sign hummed to life at the exact hour the new currency became real money, facing the European Central Bank's old headquarters. It follows the small nonprofit that quietly kept the fifty-ton sign running for two decades on donations, and the mounting repair bills that pushed its chairman, Manfred Pohl, to consider auctioning off Europe's most photographed monument. Twelve stars circle the euro symbol, scattered by the artist with no hierarchy among them.